Round-the-Clock Purple and Gold

Synchronize your watches, everybody!

July 18, 2007 | 6:49
pm

Then set your alarms for 3:01 p.m. PST tomorrow (unless you're one of them fancy lads who can tell time by looking at the sun, and if that's the case, bully for you) because that's the precise moment the Lakers can sign Derek Fisher to a contract. He'll have theoretically cleared waivers 60 seconds earlier, so unless another squad grabs Fisher off the wire at his old price -- less likely than a purple and gold reunion with Isaiah Rider -- .4 is back at his old stomping grounds.